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(No Model.) J. MAXWELL.

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No. 357,490. Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,490, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed December 1, 1886. Serial No. 220,855. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN MAXWELL, of Oneida, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Burial-Gasket-Lid Fasteners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to-the attachment of clamps to metallic'caskets for holding the lids thereon.

The object of my present invention is to simplify and facilitate and thus reduce the cost of the attachment of the aforesaid clamps; and to that end my invention consists, essentially, in the combination,with the casket and its lid, of a primary clamp gripping aprojecting edge or-flange on the top portion of the casket, and a supplemental clamp connected with the primary clamp and adapted to hold the lid on the casket, as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims. I

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is avertical transverse section of a metallic burial casket equipped with my improved clamp attachment. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side view of that portion of the casket to which my invention 'is applied. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on lines m as, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detached isometric view of the device by which the lid-fastener is secured to the casket, and

Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of the pivotal support of the lid-fastener.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the metallic burialcasket,and B the lid thereof. Said casket is provided with a horizontal outward-projecting edge or flange, a, around its top edge, and when the casket is formed of sheet metal the aforesaid flange is formed by a flat metal bar, I), secured to the sheet metal along the top of the sides and ends of the casket for the purpose of stiffening the casket, as shown in my Patent No. 338,855, dated March 30, 1886. To the bar I) are usually attached the clamps or fasteners of the lid B, and the attachment of said clamps has hitherto been made by drilling vertically in said bar a series of holes distributed over the length of the bar, and screw-tapping said holes for the reception of screws, on which the clamps are pivoted, so as to allow them to be swung in and out of position for holding the lid on the casket.

The object of this invention is to obviate the expense of drilling and screw-tapping the bar I), as aforesaid, and to accomplish this I employ a clamp, C, which, in contradistinction to the lid-holding clamp, I designate the primary clamp. This primary clamp O, I

form with two rigid jaws, c c, which stand a proper distance apart to allow the said clamp to be driven onto the bar I) from the outer edge thereof, and when driven into its requisite position the jaws c c firmly grip the said bar, and thus sustain the clamp in its position.

The described primary clamp Iprovide with a post, (1, preferably formed in one piece, or integral therewith. On this post is pivoted the sleeve 6, from which projects horizontally the journal f, on which the secondary or lidholding clamp his pivoted. This latter clamp may be of any suitable style. For exemplifiea tion of my present invention, I have shown the clamp to consist of a cam or eccentric engaging the stiffening-bar Z on the margin of the lid, as shown in my prior patent, No. 338,855, dated March 30, 1886. Said bar 1 may be either round, or semicircular, or oval, or triangular, or other polygonal shape in cross-section. 7 present invention to its connection with the described form of the lid-holding clamp.

WVh at I claim is 1. The combination, with the casket audits lid, of outward-projecting flanges on the top portion of the casket, primary clamps having jaws gripping the. top and bottom of the flanges of thecasket, and supplemental clamps connected with said primary clamps and adapted to press upon the marginal portion of the lid and hold the same upon the'casket, as set forth.

' 2. The combination, with the casket and its lid, both provided with outward-projecting flanges at their adjacent parts, of primary clamps having-rigid jaws gripping the flange of the casket, posts integral with said clamps, of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the sleeves pivoted on said posts, journals procounty of Onondaga, in the State of New ject-ing horizontally from said sleeves, and York, this 29th day of November, 1886.

cams or eccentrics on said journals, substan- JOHN MAXWELL. [1,. s]

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed 0. BENDIXON, my name and affixed my seal, in the presence H. P. DENISON. 

